iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 21h

until I figured out how to tell it to stop, my TikTok FYP was almost exclusively interested in showing me the following: 1) transplants gentrify and ruin neighborhoods 2) the new bus lanes are bad 3) the new bus lanes are gentrification

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

it's really funny this show still exists - arguably *everything* is America's Funniest Home videos now

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

why didn’t I make this comic, I’m mad that it wasn’t me who made this

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gg @ggold328.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

a cartoon that says logging on to bluesky guy in a colorful shirt that says fun busts into the door he gets disapproving looks from everyone jnsode so he takes off his shirt and says sorry

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

my basic response to “Mamdani isn’t that radical and hasn’t done much, he just has good comms” is basically like “yes, but”:

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the thing about “use AI to make healthcare more expensive” is that it was a very popular notion for insurance companies at the time of the Thompson shooting, but here’s an example of an insurance company reporting the *provider* doing that

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“actually you’re being performative if you claim to have not heard the No. 1 song in America” is, of course, silly (I genuinely haven’t), but there *is* a good article to be written about how the age of algorithms has sharply siloed our usual monocultural understanding of things like “hit songs”

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

yes, you tell me, your stepbrother, that you are “stuck in a washing machine” — but is this not a washing machine of your own making

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

absolutely dying at a TikTok I saw of someone angrily filming the Citibike docking station at 19th and Cortelyou and, with complete sincerity, going “there’s no parking in Flatbush, you could fit like…three cars in this spot”

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

SASQVATCH (2027), Dafoe, Hawke, Ineson, Bill Skarsgard (speaks entirely in Sasquatch language, meticulously constructed from Salish and ape sounds)

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Eternal Cat War @eternalcatwar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

TETSUOOOOOO MATILLLLLDAAAAA

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

remake of Matilda where her powers take on Akira-like destruction

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I’m honestly fine with getting older, and Austin Powers does actually feel like a long time ago, I feel relatively present with the movement of time — I’m just not used to having been a thing that watched movies 30 years ago

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

we’re watching the first Austin Powers, a movie that, next year, will be as far back from the present day as the thing it’s parodying was to the movie

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

is it possible I’ve never seen a rainbow at night before

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

the Last Ditch story is easy for people on the left to compartmentalize as bad because of its aesthetics: the 2010's language, the outdated issue, the scoldy tone, etc. the much harder thing to grok is "a narcissist grinds the nearest ally in reach to a halt" still happens basically all the time.

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

everybody wants to go to “clown school” but nobody tells you that employers are not even gonna get past the resume without at *least* a clown masters

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tonight!

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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Four Autumn Movies: Before Sunrise Knives Out Harold and Maude Round Midnight

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

this Thursday, 9.24: Waveforms Quintet at Brooklyn’s Fiction Bar — electronic music mapped to acoustic jazz. FREE show starting at 9:00.

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

celebrating Trane’s centennial with this one — I’d somehow never got around to it before today!

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

my guess is the trades just misreported this and it’s not actually in “Olde English” (it’s probably just faithfully in Elizabethan English) but it would be really funny if he set the story back even earlier and everyone sounded like they’re in Beowulf

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

this had got me thinking: who is the most well-known and accepted-as-such bisexual man in popular culture? Frank Ocean?

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

at the family’s. straight up "breakin it". and by "it", haha, well. let's just say. My fastt

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

guy* who thinks yuppie transplants make Brooklyn neighborhoods more boring and expensive so he supports holding Manhattan NIMBYs at gunpoint to stop blocking high-rises in their neighborhoods (*me, kind of)

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

friend told me a story about her dad’s college music class where they wrote different examples of classical compositions John Williams ripped off and John Williams showed up for a masterclass one day, saw it, went over to the blackboard and started adding more examples

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🚨Brooklyn: my WAVEFORMS quintet has *two* shows — one north, one south — coming up in the next few weeks, featuring arrangements across the electronic spectrum. both free with suggested donation, come on out!

Dan Lehner's
WAVEFORMS

Dan Lehner, trombone; Allison Philips, trumpet; Fima Chupakhin, piano; Marty
Isenberg, bass; Dan Kurfirst, drums.

9.24
Fiction Bar
9:00pm

10.9,
Bad Therapy,
7:00pm

FEATURING THE:: MUSIC OF:
-APHEX TWIN
- AUTECHRE
--BOARDS OF CANADA
-DORIAN CONCEPT
-- JAMES BLAKE
- - MOBY
ONEOHTRIX
POINT NEVER
-SAMPHA
- SBTRKT
- - SQUAREPUSHER
- - THOMAS BANGALTER
- THUNDERCAT
--VENETIAN SNARES

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🌌🧠: Ed Sheeran is secretly pro-Palestine and this was always the plan

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

looking forward to GTA 6 — I don’t play video games, I’m just glad to be done with “we got [X] before we got GTA 6” being the top rated comment on every third Instagram reel

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

fwiw, Ed Sheeran might have more sway with the decision to keep an opening artist on his tour than he’s letting on, I truly have no idea. it is weird, though, to see people insinuate he *obviously* has that power because he’s the primary, which is not how it works.

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

seeing someone who made a foundational tweet in 2016 win an Emmy is like seeing someone from your hometown win one

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

you couldn’t elevator pitch what an NFT even *was* to most people — for whatever doubts and concerns people have about LLM chat apps, the use cases are very very clear

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the 3.5 year old wanted “a grown up movie” as the plot of her bedtime story last night so I told her a sanitized, highly condensed version of “12 Angry Men” and she wanted me to change the ending so the kid goes to jail

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

“short-form video explaining that AI is bad because it flatters our priors and atrophies our ability to research and use critical thinking skills” is a real “yes, but…” kind of thing

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I have one (1) music hot take that runs totally contrary to the sensibilities of the site and would get me completely nuked out of orbit. I’ll never share it but I get a little Kierkegaardian thrill knowing that it exists.

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

if I have some grace for “9/11 as blowback” theory, it’s that I can remember the official attitude at the time being so jingoistic, maudlin and violent that people, including myself, looked for anything resembling an adult response

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the lyrics in the verses are really perfectly intelligible; he's maybe saying words *a little* faster than the average rock song but it does not sound like "shamalamadamadima" like I'd heard my entire life. society owes Vedder an apology. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxKW...

youtube.com

Pearl Jam - Even Flow (Official Video)

YouTube video by PearljamVEVO

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

“rich guy’s radicalized idiot failson does morally transgressive propaganda of deed, lists reasons in politically incoherent communiques, annoying people online cite it as blowback theory” describes at least two different guys

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I keep forgetting about “no planes” theory — it’s so funny, it makes everything a MILLÓN times more complicated, lmao

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

[a la a scientist in a movie] you guys are gonna wanna see this

A picture from George W. Bush’s instagram showing a painting of the famous photo of Andrew Card telling him about 9/11

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

“The Thing That Punishes You For Understanding It” could be from a Borges short story

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

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paul khruangbin (Dan Lehner) @danlehner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

it took my like a full ten seconds to understand what this is saying before I remembered that a lot of people think of genAI queries as a major driver of climate change

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